Archive for May 31st 2013

Students and staff have returned to university buildings after a gas leak forced them to evacuate.
Six fire appliances were on standby at the site in Coleraine, County Londonderry, after a mains gas pipe was ruptured by a contractor.
There are no rep...

More than 20 firefighters have tackled a blaze on a freight train in Staffordshire.
It broke out on wagons carrying tracks and other railway equipment at Norton Bridge, near Stafford, at about 20:30 BST on Thursday.
Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Serv...

Work to put out a recycling plant fire, which has been burning for five months, will begin next week.
The blaze that started in a pile of wood mulch at Good 2 Grow Recycling in Beenham, Berkshire has been declared a "public nuisance".
It has been mon...

Customers in a crowded Lincolnshire pub were forced to flee after a fire broke out that caused the roof to collapse.
The Ingoldmells pub was evacuated and witnesses said the collapse happened within 10 minutes. One person was treated for smoke inhala...

A fire at a Hindu temple in west London is being treated as suspicious.
Officers were called to the Adhya Shakti Mataji temple in Cowley High Street, Hillingdon, shortly after midnight on Tuesday.
Firefighters put out the fire which had caused signif...

Fire crews from all over Northern Ireland have brought a large gorse fire on Rathlin Island under control.
Emergency services were called shortly after 13:00 BST on Thursday afternoon, to respond to the blaze that spanned more than a kilometre. It be...

Devon and Somerset's fire service should not use its cash reserves to deal with £5.5m in cuts planned over two years, managers have said.
The service had £8.9m in reserves, a meeting of the Devon and Somerset Fire Authority heard.
The meeting was d...

A man who tried to kill a shop owner by firebombing his fast-food takeaway in Glasgow has been jailed for nine years.
Archibald McKay, 44, from Possil, was convicted of attempting to murder 34-year-old Rashid Ali at the Spicy Bite in Saracen Street o...

A man accused of murdering three people in a house fire in Helensburgh threatened to burn down the house of a pub manager, a court has heard.
Claire McMahon, 30, told the High Court in Glasgow that Scott Snowden said in a phone call he would burn her...

Offshore workers will be trained in firefighting skills at a new training centre on Tyneside.
About 6,000 people every year are expected to visit Offshore Training Newcastle which has a mock platform rig and a helipad.
It is hoped the base at Newcast...